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Skin Framework vs MFC's CMFCVisualManager

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Topic: Skin Framework vs MFC's CMFCVisualManager

Posted By: adi.barda
Subject: Skin Framework vs MFC's CMFCVisualManager
Date Posted: 24 August 2011 at 10:20am

Hello,

I'm evaluating your Skinning framework for our MFC (vs 2010) MDI application and my question is: in what ways is it better than CMFCVisualManager?

Also, I only need the skinning abilities so what is the minimum requirements for using it? (include files, lib files etc)

Thank you very much,

Adi Barda

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Posted By: Oleg
Date Posted: 26 August 2011 at 4:18am

CMFCVisualManager is not same as SkinFramework.

You call SkinFramework once and it skin all window elements it found. with CMFCVisualManager you must manually subclass each element to corresponding MFC class to see some new look.

If you need only Skinfamework, you can purchase Skinframework single package. Try our evaluation version.

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Oleg, Support Team
CODEJOCK SOFTWARE SOLUTIONS

Posted By: adi.barda
Date Posted: 28 August 2011 at 6:08am

Hi Oleg,

The skinning framework doesn't work well for us because our main frame inherits from CMDIFrameWndEx and not from CMDIFrameWnd. This is a problem because your skinning framework class "CXTPMDIFrameWnd" inherits from CMDIFrameWnd and not CMDIFrameWndEX.

We would like to use/purchase it very much but we have to find a solution for this issue. we must inherit from CMDIFrameWndEX.

Thanks,

Adi Barda

Posted By: ABuenger
Date Posted: 04 December 2011 at 10:43pm

Hi,

you only need CXTPMDIFrameWnd if you want to use our CommandBars. If you only want to use the SkinFramework you don't need to derive from CXTPMDIFrameWnd.

Andre

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Posted By: Algae
Date Posted: 12 November 2013 at 5:11pm

What is the recommended process to replace the cmfcvisualmanager with Skin Framework in an existing program?

As was stated before, there can be all sorts of things manually subclassed. It seems like a pretty hefty task to port. Or is it much simpler than I surmise?

Perhaps CJ could get some mileage out of this with people who want to improve programs and get away from using the cmfcvisualmanager bag of snakes.